Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Bernie Sanders takes on America’s corporate media

In his Salon article today, “The media’s sickening Sander’s
double standard: How the socialist brings out their true colors,” Simon Maloy
analyzes how the media reacts to Bernie Sanders' positions as opposed to his
Tea Party counterparts in the Republican party. On the subject of income
inequality, one of Sanders’ top priorities, he has suggested we return to the
Eisenhower-era tax structure when the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest
Americans was around 90 percent. The interviewer was taken aback.

As Maloy points
out, we have been so brainwashed over the past thirty years by the corporate
media that the idea of taxing the wealthiest Americans to this extent seems
like a crazy idea, although the American economy has historically prospered
when taxes on the rich were high and floundered when they were low, as they are
now.

Conservatives are
given a very long leash by the mainstream media when it comes to calling their
craziness to account, but when a progressive utters anything even remotely
“leftist” it is met with incredulity and eye-rolling. Sander’s has a large
mountain to scale in his run for the presidency, not so much from Hillary, but
from the internal biases of America’s corporate media.